Dear Neighbors,
Happy new year and welcome to 2025! Here are some ways to kick off the year in service of others.
ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN LOS FELIZ EVENT — January 11
Join your neighbors, city officials and local outreach organizations for discussions and presentations about service providers and outreach being done to assist unhoused neighbors, and what your part can be in supporting these services. Saturday, January 11, 10 am to 1 pm at the Los Feliz Library Community Room (1874 Hillhurst Ave).
Presenters will include:
Reps from CD4/Mayor’s Office
Hollywood 2.0
SELAH
LA Housing Works
Hollywood Food Coalition
Healthcare in Action
And more …
VOLUNTEER AT THE 2025 HOMELESS COUNT — January 21
The 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count in Los Feliz is being held on January 21. You can play a part in helping our unsheltered neighbors receive resources and access to shelter by volunteering to help.
The results of the Homeless Count help Los Angeles better understand where our unhoused neighbors are so we can better provide essential, life-saving resources to help them find a permanent home. Volunteering is easy and takes just a few hours of your time.
Learn more about the upcoming count HERE and register HERE.
SERVICE DAY LA — January 25
Mayor Karen Bass is ramping up efforts to clean up LA. Join staff from the offices of Mayor Bass and Councilmembers Heather Hutt and Katy Yaroslavsky to help make our city cleaner and safer for everyone. There will also be resources available for community members and families, including free trees to plant, rain barrels, composting pails and much more. Go HERE for more info.
Saturday, January 25
9 am to 12 noon cleanup; 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Resource Fair
Trinity-Central Lutheran Church at 987 S Gramercy Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90019
CERT TRAINING — Begins March 5
Anyone in good health and with a sense of community can become a part of CERT – Community Emergency Response Team. If you become a CERT member, you will learn about important life-safety support techniques (you will not ever be expected to place yourself in dangerous situations).
Training includes:
- Learning to suppress small fires
- Basic first aid
- Evacuation tactics and how to collaborate with city agencies to support neighborhood exits
- Search tactics
- Communications, including the use of radios
A key factor for CERT members is the ability to spontaneously organize and activate themselves in the event of a major disaster. If there is a significant earthquake, CERT members will know where to go, how to organize their efforts, and will get to work without any specific order being issued.
Go HERE to sign up. For more information on local CERT classes contact: Benjamin P. Goldfarb at 818.574.6369 or benjamin.goldfarb@certvolunteer.org
LA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SPECIAL BULLETINLA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SPECIAL BULLETIN
SLO Ivan Gracia asked us to share this information with the neighborhood:
Owners of newer Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler and Ram vehicles should contact their dealers to find out if their specific vehicle is eligible for a software update. These desirable vehicles have taken the lead as the most stolen and this dealer-installed update adds several safeguards that overrides the ability of a potential car thief to program a new key to a vehicle. Click HERE to learn more.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
